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As a company, we are pursuing sustainable and socially-responsible business activities in ways that cannot be conveyed only with financial information. As well as of course releasing environmental information, we are also proactively responding to trusted surveys.
The SRI Index is based on ESG (Environment/Social/Governance), and is an indicator describing choices in socially-responsible investment.
Since 2009, the FTSE4Good Global Index has selected HCM as meeting its index criteria.
HCM was chosen as a Japanese brand that excels in Environment, Society, and Governance (ESG), as well as being chosen for the FTSE Blossom Japan Index an industry-neutral index which evaluates ESG risk management by Japanese businesses and promotes integration of stewardship into investment strategies.
This index was created in accordance with the existing FTSE4Good Index Series, utilizing global standards such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) etc.
HCM was again selected in 2017 as a constituent of the “SNAM Sustainability Index,” which was inaugurated by Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Asset Management Co., Ltd. (SNAM) in August 2012. This index is used in SNAM’s “SNAM Sustainable Investment.”
In the 21st Environmental Communication Award, sponsored by the Ministry of the Environment and the Global Environmental Forum, the CSR & Financial Report 2017 issued by Hitachi Construction Machinery and the environmental information disclosed on the company’s corporate website received an excellence award for environmental reporting.
Hitachi Construction Machinery was acknowledged as its products reflect the consistency of policies—from the commitment of top management to the selection of KPIs—based on the goal of contributing to social and environmental issues through business activities. The company was also recognized for the value chain mapping of SDGs which clarify the relationship with issues connected with sustainability throughout the value chain extending to the materiality analysis of production, transport and disposal activities.
Climate change response strategy, and studies on greenhouse gas emission levels by CDP(ex:Carbon Disclosure Project)
Environmental management evaluation in the following 5 fields: “Environmental management promotion structure”, “Pollution countermeasures, biological diversity policy”, “Resource recycling”, “Product measures” and “Global warming countermeasures”
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